2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Management & Marketing Major in the Southwest Region

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In 2020-2021, 4,822 people earned their degree in business management and marketing, making the major the 163rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,683 business management and marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 93 business management and marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Management & Marketing Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in business management and marketing. That schools that top this list have a program in business management and marketing in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Management & Marketing Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree business management & marketing students.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Business Management & Marketing in the Southwest Region

1

Amberton University
Garland, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Amberton University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Management & Marketing Major in the Southwest Region list. Amberton is located in Garland, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 19 masters’s business management and marketing degrees to qualified students.

Full Amberton University Business Management & Marketing Report

2

Saint Edward's University
Austin, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Edward’s University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Management & Marketing Major in the Southwest Region list. St. Edward’s University is a small school located in Austin, Texas that handed out 47 masters’s business management and marketing degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Business Management & Marketing at Saint Edward’s University

3

Oklahoma Christian University
Edmond, Oklahoma

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Management & Marketing Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma Christian University landed the #3 spot on the list. Oklahoma Christian University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Edmond, Oklahoma. The school has a small population, and it awarded 21 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Business Management & Marketing at OC

4

Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas

#11 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Management & Marketing Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Christian University landed the #4 spot on the list. TCU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Fort Worth, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 6 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Business Management & Marketing at TCU

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Business Management & Marketing

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Amit Savargaonkar.